DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Priority
This application is a division of S/N 18/113909, filed 02/24/23, which is a division of S/N 17/198991, filed 03/11/21.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 05/03/24 and 12/29/25 was considered by the examiner.
Drawings
The drawings were received on 05/03/24.
Specification
The disclosure is objected to because of the following informalities: the current status of all parent applications must be updated (i.e., whether abandoned or patented/patent #). Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (i.e., a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea) without significantly more. Claims 1-10 are directed to a computer-implemented method per se. The present claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception because the claimed subject matter simply appears to perform some basic/general calculations, comparisons, and/or data collection/gathering of a generic source of values without significantly: (i) providing tangible/physical structures, features, components, and (ii) performing clear adjusting/interactive steps/actions in order to carry out a reasonable feedback and transformational action(s)/step(s) within the claimed processors, and/or within a power bank and/or a battery per se. As best understood by the examiner, the claimed invention appears to merely provide: (i) a basic/conventional control unit/method (i.e., a basic/conventional controlling element or mechanism) just to perform certain calculations or determinations which is acting as a general-purpose computer without apparently causing any action(s)/step(s) to occur; and/or making an adjustment or providing a reasonable feedback; and/or providing an interactive mechanism or process; and/or triggering/initiating/generating any concrete/tangible activity; and in particular, (ii) a processor(s) being routinely conventional which does not make a contribution over the prior art. To expedite prosecution, further technical explanation and/or elaboration on this matter is necessary. Further, applicant is encouraged to further elaborate the claim language to clearly address and/or clarify the foregoing point/topic. Therefore, this judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application; and the claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. The following prior art references disclose subject matter related to the claimed invention: Lee et al’977 and Ishibashi’472.
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/RAYMOND ALEJANDRO/
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 1752
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